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A Series of unfortunate events 12 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 321 Eve Ronin 2 Home to Hickory Hollow Mac McKenzie 13 Maggie Hope 9 Magical bookshop mystery 5 Series of unfortunate events (Harper Audio (Firm)) ; 1 Series of unfortunate events (Listening Library) bk. 2 Series of unfortunate events (Listening Library) bk. 3Snicket, Lemony.
Summary: Accidents, evil plots, and general misfortune abound when, in their continuing search for a home, the Baudelaire orphans are sent to live and work in a sinister lumber mill.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Children's Audio 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SNILewis, Gill
Summary: As a group of refugees huddles together in a rubber dinghy in the middle of the sea at night, one of them uses his violin to tell a story of how the instrument was invented and of a white stallion that ran like the wind, weaving their stories together and giving them hope for freedom in the future.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LEWSnicket, Lemony.
Summary: In the perilous Mortmain mountains, Klaus and Violet Baudelaire meet another well-read person, who helps them try to rescue Sunny from the villainous Count Olaf and his henchmen as they all near "the last safe place."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SNICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SNISnicket, Lemony.
Summary: After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADAMandel, Emily St. John
Summary: Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal, an experience that shocks him to his core. Two centuries later a famous writer named...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD SF MANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC MANSlocumb, Brendan
Summary: "Ray McMillian loves playing the violin more than anything, and nothing will stop him from pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician. Not his mother, who thinks he should get a real job, not the fact that he can't afford a high-caliber violin, not the racism inherent in the classical music world. And when he makes the startling discovery that his great-grandfather's fiddle is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M SLOZhang, Gracey
Summary: "Rubin loves the beautiful sounds that are played by the orchestra. He wants to learn to play the violin and make his own music. But when Rubin plays, it doesn't sound like he imagines it should. Rubin goes into the forest to practice alone and despite only getting the violin to screech, he finds an unlikely audience that loves his unique style"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ZHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ZHAMcPhail, David
Summary: Feeling that something is missing in his simple life, Mole acquires a violin and learns to make beautiful, joyful music.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Live Oak Media 2001
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE MOLWells, Rosemary
Summary: "Noisy Nora is learning to play the violin, but her family isn't sure they can survive it! The lovable heroine of Noisy Nora returns in a new book that will charm parents and children alike. Nora is determined to play the violin, but her parents, sister Kate, and brother Jack are appalled by the terrible sounds that emerge during her practice sessions. Scrape and shriek, screech and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Wells 2020Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WELSnicket, Lemony
Summary: After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VIRFlower, Amanda
Summary: "Christmas is coming to Cascade Springs, and so is the long-awaited wedding of Charming Books proprietor Violet Waverly and police chief David Rainwater. But the reception becomes memorable for all the wrong reasons when a woman's dead body floats by on the Niagara River. Violet is shocked to recognize the deceased as a woman who visited Charming Books two days before, toting a rare first...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FLOSnicket, Lemony.
Summary: The Baudelaire orphans disguise themselves as employees of the Hotel Denoument and find themselves pursued by the evil Count Olaf and by others.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SNICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SNIGoldberg, Lee
Summary: "A catastrophic wildfire scorches the Santa Monica Mountains, exposing the charred remains of a woman who disappeared years ago. The investigation is assigned to Eve Ronin, the youngest homicide detective in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, a position that forces her to prove herself again and again. This time, though, she has much more to prove. Bones don't lie, and these have a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GOLLi, Winnie M.
Summary: "One bright spring afternoon in West Belfast, cosmopolitan Taiwanese-American tourist Vivian's path collides with fifteen-year-old Irish teenager Johnny and culminates in a horrifying act of violence. Inspired by true events, a riveting novel of suspense about of the dark chapters and chance encounters that can irrevocably determine the shape of our lives"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LIMiller, Suzie
Summary: "An adaptation of the Olivier Award-winning play that the New York Times wrote radiated with "visceral power," Suzie Miller's legal thriller Prima Facie is a heartbreaking, nuanced look at the system's flaws when protecting sexual assault and rape survivors, through the eyes of a star defense attorney"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLESnicket, Lemony
Summary: Catastrophes and misfortune continue to plague the Baudelaire orphans after they're sent to live with fearful Aunt Josephine who offers little protection against Count Olaf's treachery.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: When a squirrel finds a pear, he turns it into a violin and fills the forest with a sweet music.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Starfish Bay Children's Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BINEdwards, Megan
Summary: "Ted Spencer has a hard enough time believing the celebrated violin really exists. To find it sitting on his coffee table is nothing short of incredible. The stuff of legend, the exquisite Guarnerius has been missing for centuries. But even though the renowned instrument is a violin lover's dream come true, it holds only heartache for Ted. The value of the Merino Rose may be beyond measure, but...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Imbrifex Books, Flattop Productions, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDWElias, Gerald.
Summary: When a rare and valuable violin disappears after a concert, unpleasant and reclusive violin teacher Daniel Jacobus is blamed. Jacobus decides to prove his innocence by finding the violin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELIHousewright, David
Summary: Since becoming an unlikely millionaire and quitting the St. Paul Police Department, Rushmore McKenzie has been working as an unlicensed private investigator, basically doing favors for friends and people in need. But even for him, this latest job is unusual. He's been asked to find a stolen Stradivarius, known as the Countess Borromeo, that only the violinist seems to want him to find. Stolen...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOULewis, Beverly.
Summary: A wrong turn in a rainstorm leads Englisher Amelia Devries to Michael Hostetle, and the young Amishman's charming Old Order community of Hickory Hollow. Despite their very different backgrounds, Amelia and Michael both feel hemmed in by the expectations of others and struggle with how to find room for their own hopes. And what first seems to be a chance encounter might just change their lives...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEWMacNeal, Susan Elia
Summary: "London. December, 1942. As the Russian army repels German forces from Stalingrad, Maggie Hope, secret agent and spy, takes a break from the Special Operations Executive division to defuse bombs in London. But Maggie herself is like an explosion waiting to happen. Shaken by a recent case, she finds herself living more dangerously--taking more risks than usual, smoking again, drinking gin and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2020